Steel barrel



R. MALLU. sTEEL BARREL.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. H, 1922.

Patented Oct. 17, 11922,

IlI/l/E/VTOR Robert Mmm,

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS Fatented @ct. 17, 19220 UNHTED 'STATJES MSMWS PATENT @FFECE.

ROBERT MALL'U, 0F NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR T0 TVIALLU SHEET METAL WURKS, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

srnnn BARREL.

Application filed. February 11, 1922. Serial No. 535,731.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT MALLp, a citi- I J zenof the United States, and resident of New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Steel Barrels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the class of metallic storing and shipping vessels and more particularly to steel or other metallic barrels.

The primary object of the invention is'to provide a sectional or knock down steel barrel construction by which an assembled barrel can be readily taken apart or disassembled, or the sections thereof readily assembled and connected so as to produce a metallic barrel which is liquid tight and provided with the usual bung holes for discharging the contents of the barrel or dispensing the same in the usual way.

A further object of the invention is to so construct the barrel that the sections thereof when disassembled may be nested one within the other so as to occupy a minimum amount of space for storage or shipment, either by rail or steamer, and at the same time facilitating and considerably reducing the cost of cleaning.

With the above and other objects in view, as will hereinafter appear, the device consists in certain peculiarities of construction, novel arrangement and operation of the various parts, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the improved metallic or steel barrel, a portion of the barrel being broken away to disclose the bung holes in the top or one end thereof, the device being shown in its assembled form.

Figure 2 is a side elevation showing the manner of nesting the half sections of the barrel one within the other for storage or shipment, and

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmentary lon gitudinal sectional view showing portions of assembled sections and a joint and connect- I ing means between the two.

Referring to the drawings in detail, in which for sake of illustration is shown the referred embodiment of the invention and in which like reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, the improved barrel consists of a body 10 forming the lateral section or wall, said body being composed of a pair of half sections 11 and 12, each having an open end and a closed end 13 forming the head sections or heads of the barrel. The sections 11 and 12 form the upper and lower half sections of the barrel and the top or head 13 is preferably provided with the usual bung holes 14 and 15 as is common in metallic shipping and storing vessels of this class.

At the open end of one section, preferably the upper half or section 11, there is provided a circumscribing packing flange 16 extending outwardly substantially'at right angles to the lateral wall, as more particularly shown in Figure 3 of the drawing. The wall of the other section or lower half 12, of

the barrel, overlaps or fits snugly within the compressible material. such as rubber, rope or other fibrous material. lit will be observed that the packing entirely fills the packing space and by drawing thesections l1 and 12 together in the act of assembling the packing is compressed so as to produce a liquid-tight joint.

in order that the: half sections of the barrel may be connected and held inassembled relation, a novel connecting means is provided which also serves the function of a supporting and protecting means for the lat-- eral wall of the barrel when lying on its side, when rolled, or whenmoved about, so as to prevent injury, distortion, denting, bending or otherwise distorting the shape of the sections. As shown, a pair of hoops or rings 21 and 22 are secured around the sections 11 and 12 intermediately of the ends thereof, but more closely positioned toward the open ends than the head ends, the same being welded or otherwise suitably secured in position. The hoops or bands 21 are preferably produced from bar metal or double right angular or substantially 'Z-shaped cross section with flanges 23 extending outwardly toward the ends or heads of the bar 'reland flanges 24 at the peripheralportions extending inwardly and in opposite directions toward each other and in alignment, said flanges constituting bracing and stifiening means for the hoops, as well as forming bearing surfaces for supporting the barrel when lying on the side or when being rolled about, and protecting the barrels when on end. y

The intermediate or web portions of the hoops 21 and 22 are provided with a series of equi-distantly spaced apertures 25 adapted to receive belts or other connecting means 26 extending through the aligned apertures of the respective hoops, so that the head's-26 of the connecting devices or bolts will contact with the outer face of the intermediate or *web portion of the hoop 22, preferably with interposed washers 27, whi e the intermediate or web portions of the hoops 21 at the outer Face thereof will be engaged by the nuts 28 mounted on the threaded ends of the bolts with intermediate washers 29. Thus it will appear that the sections 11 and 12 may be p aced one upon the other in superposed relation so that the packing flange 16 will engage the packing 20 within the flange 19 and between said flange and the wall 12 at the extension 17, so that in addition to producing a lap joint an effective liquid seal will be produced. he bolts are then placed inposition and the nuts turned so as to draw thesections together and press the packing 20 whereby the barrel is ready for receiving the oil or other liquid to be shipped.

s heretofore pointed out, the object of the barrel is to reduce the cost of handling, as well as to simplify and render more economical the construction of a barrel of the sectional or knock-down type and so it will appear that when the connecting means or bolts 26 are removed, the barrel may be readily disassembled after being emptied of its contents and by displacing the section 11 from the section 12, the said sections may be nested or placed one within another in the manner clearly shown in Figure 2 of the drawings vso as to occupy a very minimum of space for storage or shipment. llt is also to be understood that theKsections of other similar barrels may be nested therein without limitation except as to the capacity of the storage chamber so that in lieu of storing or ship ing the barrels in complete or orm, or as distinguished from assembled the usual permanent whole barrel construe resents empty may be stored in a given space or compartment, thus saving considerable in space both by rail and steamer and more so by steamer than by rail in view of the fact,-

as determined by practical experience, the minimum sized car only contains about three hundred and seventy-five barrels, thereby causing the shipper to pay on the minimum weight, whereas actual weight does not equal the minimum-as charged by the railroads, while by shipping the barrels in the nested relation, the actual weight will equal that of the minimum weight charge. In shipments made by steamer, charge is made according to the cubic measure and thus, by nesting these barrels, about four times as many barrels may be placed in the same space as could be placed therein by the shipment of whole or permanent barrel constructions, as'usually emplo ed. In addition, the sections may be 'rea ily disassembled, as heretofore set forth so that the cleaning operation may be eflectively carried on. at a considerable reduction in co While I have shown what I now consider to be the preferred embodiment. of my invention, it is understood that changes in the construction and arrangement of parts shown may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention, so lon as the same is included within the scope o" the device as hereinafterclaimed.

. Having thus described my invention, what.

I claim is 1 A barrel comprising inner and outer sections having their inner ends overlapped, the outer section having its inner and formed with an outwardly directed annular flange and the inner section being provided at a polnt spaced from the inner end thereof with a radial flange having an annular wall 00- operating with the inner section in forming an annular socket snugly receiving said first named flange, a packing received in said socket and engaged by said first named flange, annular projections formed on said sections on opposite sides of said flanges in spaced relation to the same and extending for a substantial distance beyond the outer edges of the flanges, and fastening bolts extending through and connecting said annu-' lar projections, said fastening bolts and said pro ections forming a means to protect said flanges.

ROBERT MALLU. 

